The Flower Book - Wall Tryst1905 Accession number: 1953P5.24 Colour facsimile. Collotype print. InformationA page from the facsimile edition of Burne-Jones' Flower Book, one of 38 watercolour designs reproduced by Henri Piazza et Cie, for the Fine Art Society, London in 1905. 'Wall Tryst' may refer to a number of plants, possibly; common stonecrop (Sedum acre) known as 'Wall Ginger' which grows freely upon stone walls in the UK; 'Pellitory-of-the-Wall' (Parictaria officinalis) commonly found growing in dry walls; or wallflower (Cnerranthus cneiri). Burne-Jones created a similar, although rather rudimentary, image of Thisbe with her letter to (or from) Pyramus standing at the wall, which is in Birmingham's collection (c.1865). Burne-Jones created a beautiful triptych in the early 1870's of both Pyramus and Thisbe, with a slight variation in the figure of Thisbe (Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Birkenhead, 1873).
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